Peer Support Specialists CPS Study Guide Questions With Complete Solutions
Solutions What is a Peer Support Specialist? - Correct Answers CPS provides peer support to people receiving services to Mental Health and/or Substance Abuse. Where do Peer work? - Correct Answers Often a peer run organization on a team entirely composed of other Peer Support Professionals or part of a recovery team with other clinicians and service providers. What is the roll of CPS? (1of 2) - Correct Answers 1.Cultivate empowering & supportive relationships. of self-disclosure about lived experience. 3.Provide information about community & recovery-oriented resources upon request. 4. Assist in supporting their peer, even in a crisis. 5. value self-determination as a guiding ethical principle. 6. Facilitate person-centered goal setting. What is the roll of CPS? (2 of2) - Correct Answers 7. Communicate effectively with peers, and other team members, and clinicians. 8.Create an environment of respect for their peers, and those with lived experience. 9.Seek to under the roles of culture, community, and identity play in their peers' lives. 10. Practice Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) within the peer relationship and workplace. 11. Affect positive change in systems. 12. Inspire Hope for Recovery and Wellness. Wisconsin's " working" Difinition of CPS - Correct Answers A Certified Peer Specialist is a person who has their own lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges and has completed formal training and certification in the peer specialist model of mental health and substance use oriented peer support. They use their unique set of lived experiences and recovery in combination with comprehensive skills-training, including continuing education, to support people living with mental health and/or substance use challenges. Certified Peer Specialists actively center peer support and associated principles in their work, while operating under a clearly defined role and collaborate in a complementary fashion as part of an agency's team support structure.
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